Binary name in the desktop file

[Jerome Leclanche]

I don't see what menu categories have to do with this. Nor how this is
a Wine bug.

J. Leclanche


On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Dominique Michel
<dominique.michel at vtxnet.ch> wrote:
> Le Thu, 26 Dec 2013 20:19:08 +0100,
> Dominique Michel <dominique.michel at vtxnet.ch> a écrit :
>
>> Le Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:56:57 +0000,
>> Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> > My point is, "env" is not what you should get for this. Wine is just
>> > using env as a "hacky" way to give wine the WINEPREFIX variable.
>> >
>> >
>> > J. Leclanche
>>
>> So, this is a wine bug, as their non standard Wine category which
>> is not prefixed by X- and necessitate an extra xdg menu
>> infrastructure.
>
> Another one is the bogus focus policy of the wine windows that think
> they know better than the wm how to focus.
>
>>
>> Dominique
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org>
>> > wrote:
>> > > On Thursday, 2013-12-26, 11:33:13, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
>> > >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org>
>> > >> wrote:
>> > >> > On Thursday, 2013-12-26, 10:56:11, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
>> > >> >> I'd really like to be able to get the binary name from desktop
>> > >> >> files (eg a way to "start without any argument"). Current
>> > >> >> implementations rely on getting the first word of the Exec key
>> > >> >> OR replace %f etc by nothing, but that fails for things such
>> > >> >> as these:
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> Exec=env
>> > >> >> WINEPREFIX="/home/adys/.local/share/wineprefixes/default" wine
>> > >> >> start /ProgIDOpen chm.file %f
>> > >> >
>> > >> > What do you mean when you say "fails"?
>> > >> > That the command won't launch if %f is replaced by nothing or
>> > >> > that taking the first string fails to see that the launched
>> > >> > program is /usr/bin/env?
>> > >> Sorry, I meant the usual way of getting the binary name (which in
>> > >> this case would be "env").
>> > >
>> > > Ok, thank you for clarifying.
>> > > However, I don't see how the simple algorith of taking the first
>> > > word could possibly fail to return 'env'.
>> > > That is the most simple case: no path, no escaped or quoted
>> > > whitespace, just a simple alphabetic sequence.
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Kevin
>> > > --
>> > > Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
>> > > KDE user support, developer mentoring
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